Robert Gallo: “You need to get vaccinated, new Covid strain causes epilepsy and neurological damage”

On the front of the fight against the coronavirus there is also the problem of those who refuse to get vaccinated. This topic was also addressed during the second evening of the prequel of the third International Annual Meeting SudeFuturi III – (R) innoviamo il Mezzogiorno. “In Italy there is the problem of no vaxes, which are opposed to those who get vaccinated – the journalist Paola Bottero asked the virologist Robert Gallo, who led the event with her colleague Alessandro Russo – What can be done to make people understand who does not want to do the importance of vaccination? How can we help those who are not convinced of the goodness of vaccines? ”. “It is very difficult for any man of science to explain to no vax why they have to get vaccinated – Gallo replied – This is a problem that exists all over the world, even here in the United States. But it is a problem that affects us all and we must explain why we should be vaccinated. I can’t understand why they have all this fear. Among other things, to move, to travel, to work you need to be vaccinated. Just in this period a new strain of the virus is spreading which also causes neurological problems and epilepsy episodes: everyone must get vaccinated and at the same time the production of vaccines must be increased. There is a lot of confusion because even those who are vaccinated can become infected, but they do not develop the disease and infect much less and this is fundamental “. On the situation in Italy, urged by Russo, it is Arnaldo Caruso, president of the Italian Society of Virology, to answer. “Why did we go on with difficulty? We didn’t have all the necessary vaccines. Our government, like those of other countries, had to deal with the vaccines that were being produced as we progressed. Producing billions of doses of vaccine is not easy and in Italy we have done a great job with the resources we had. Now we must keep in mind, as Bob Gallo said, that the new variant also affects the neurological level and if we have a third dose even for the most fragile subjects we will have a less aggressive virus and we will all be much more protected “.” It is important to understand that the more the virus is free to circulate the more it changes because it does not meet resistance: it is like a river that cannot be controlled in any way – continued Caruso – This virus entered humans in 2019 and has continued to circulate. The miracle is to have generated an effective vaccine in less than a year: an incredible step for humanity. Vaccines are the only barrier for the virus, which now has to deal with the resistance we are putting in place. It will de-power, but on the condition that we protect ourselves with vaccines ”.